This reawakened Knull, allowing him to take control of the Sym-soldiers who went rogue before being captured by Nick Fury and Logan, except one piece, named Rex, which escaped Knull's control. The procedure was dubbed the Sym-Soldier program. discovered the body of the Grendel and bound the pieces of the dragon to soldiers in order to create Super-Soldiers to fight in the Vietnam War. Meeting Eddie Brock Īfter thousands of years, S.H.I.E.L.D. The symbiotes rebelled against their god and trapped him inside an artificial planet formed of billions of symbiotes, which they called Klyntar - "cage" in their language.
The symbiotes that were scattered over the universe, now free from Knull's control, began bonding to benevolent hosts and learning about the Light. When one dragon-like symbiote arrived on medieval Earth to claim the planet as part of the Symbiote Hive, Thor arrived in aid of the Viking villagers and defeated the dragon, which the villagers called "Grendel", causing the connection between Knull and the symbiote hivemind to break. When Knull reached the Surfer, he tried to defeat him and re-infect the Surfer with his abyss, but the Surfer, who had gathered the energy of the cosmos, created a star which was enough to defeat Knull. After a brief fight, Knull was able to bond a symbiote to Silver Surfer, but the latter was saved by Ego, the Living Planet. At some point, he was approached by the time-displaced Silver Surfer who had been weakened after Silver Surfer had created a little star in order to free a world from Knull's control. He continued killing gods, while also enslaving others whom he spared with the use of his abyss. He created an army of symbiotes with himself in the center of the hive mind and uses them to spread over the universe, establishing the Symbiote Hive and killing the light and creation in the process. Knull eventually reawakened and discovered he could bond his living abyss to "lesser creatures" and control their new form as vessels. He created a symbiote armor and, with All-Black, started killing the other deities, until he crash-landed on an unnamed planet where Gorr took All-Black from the incapacitated Knull. In doing so, he unintentionally gave the symbiotes their weaknesses to sonic attacks and fire. He then used the head to forge the symbiote and combined it with the cosmic energies of the head, which would eventually become Knowhere. Seeing this, the other Celestials banished Knull and the severed head deeper into the Void. Awakened by the "Light of the Creation" and outraged by his kingdom of darkness being despoiled, Knull retaliated by creating All-Black the Necrosword and killing one of the Celestials.
Knull is a primordial deity that came into being following the destruction of the sixth iteration of the cosmos, and was originally content to drift through the endless void until the Celestials arrived and began creating the 7th iteration of the Marvel Universe. Knull returned in King in Black as the main antagonist, which centers on his attack on Earth with his symbiote army.įictional character biography Origin
After that, Knull was the main antagonist in Donny Cates’ Silver Surfer: Black #1. The character would be mentioned in various issues of Web of Venom, Guardians of the Galaxy and " War of the Realms". 4 #3 (Aug 2018), giving a nod to a nameless being appearing in Thor: God of Thunder #6. The character was first introduced in Venom vol. The character would go on to play a more important role in the Marvel Universe. The character is depicted as an evil deity who created the weapon known as All-Black the Necrosword and the alien races known as the Symbiotes and Exolons. Knull is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with Venom and Carnage.